FFC on the road: GoEast Wiesbaden

Program Director Bernd Buder is at the GoEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden for us right now.

For the 23rd time, goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film brings a diverse program of film screenings and accompanying events to Wiesbaden and the Rhine-Main region. Organized by the DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, the festival sees itself as a window to Central and Eastern Europe and as a continuous intercultural bridge builder to the East. Traditionally, goEast deals intensively with the current political and cultural situation in the region.

On the photo is program director Bernd Buder with migrants of the Belarusian Independent Film Academy, during the following symposium:

With the support of luminaries in film studies and filmmaking, such as Prof. Nancy Condee, Ivan Kozlenko, Dita Rietuma, Daria Badior, Igor Soukmanov, Oleksiy Radinsky, Valentyn Vasyanovych, and Davra Collective, curators Barbara Wurm and Heleen Gerritsen will take as their starting point the historical rupture represented by Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to reflect on various key aspects of the institutional and political entanglement of non-Russian film cultures - especially Ukrainian ones - with Moscow, the former center of power. The discussion will cover a wide range of topics: Ukrainian cinema of the past and the future; the traces of empire in "non-Russian Russia," such as in Sakha or the North Caucasus; the film festival landscape beyond Moscow - from Minsk to Tashkent (historically and today); the cinematic and film cultural legacy of the USSR - from Kiev and Riga to Tbilisi and Yerevan back to Wiesbaden; and the debate on the appropriate treatment of canon and classics; the question of Soviet anti-colonialism; the question of who owns the rights and copies of Soviet films produced by non-Russians; the cultural and national memory of alternative, non-state film and photo archives; and documentary cinema as a space for reflection on what the terms Soviet and post-Soviet once meant and can mean today.

(Text:GoEast)